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Vivek Ramaswamy: “20 kids a year are born with this rare congenital disease…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

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Who is Vivek Ramaswamy? | The Sage Steele Show | EP 65

Published | Video Starts at 49:11

Yeah, I mean there's five drugs, one of them is. So I'll tell you about them. One's a life saving therapy for kids where 20 kids a year, it's really small number, but 20 kids a year are born with this rare congenital disease where 100% of them died by the age of three if untreated. And the therapy that we got through FDA approval, 70% of those kids now are able to live lives of normal. What was the disease? It's called complete du jour syndrome or congenital athymia. (49:11–49:20)

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Asserts that 20 children annually are born with a fatal congenital disease if untreated.

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